ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

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re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

sam — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:44:36 GMT

can any one plz suggest, how can we build and then publish using same scenario

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Rich — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:58:12 GMT

When runnig iisweb, you need to do this:

<exec>

<executable>cmd.exe</executable> <buildArgs>/c iisweb /stop "Dropthings"</buildArgs>

</exec>

or you get errors when attempting to execute the script.

Rich

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Miodrag — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 12:21:44 GMT

Hi,

What's about CVS' integration?

Is it possible? Is it similar to Subversion's?

Regards,

Miodrag

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Naveen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:09:21 GMT

Hi Omar,

I asked you earlier also in my comments the query i have regarding the deployment process with robocopy on to our different environment i.e. QA and dev servers(machines) After build : I need to deploy my latest code to other staging servers automatically with CruiseControl as I am using MSBuild, CruiseControl.net, SVN, and off course want to use robocopy for the deployment. if possible could you guys explain me a bit more about it, ccnet.config file will me really helpfull with bit explaination. As i ahve to copy my latest build from different location (multiple files)and as I already says to copy in specific directories on other environment.

I really appericiate yor help and direction in this matter.

Gary mention in his previos remarks that blog missed some xml in blog description, plz as i am also new to CI, guide me in that regard as well.

Thanks

nlohchab@aim.com

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Naveen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:17:21 GMT

Its great article, but i have some more question to you is that how we can deploy the build code to different server i.e. QA, prod.

What is best way to deploy to different server in your advice plz

nlohchab@aim.com

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Gary Woodfine — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:45:21 GMT

Just going through your tutorial, thought I would just point out that you are missing some closing tags in your XML. This may lead to some confusion to newbies who are copying and pasting your code to have a look ( it did confuse me :-) )

Otherwise I enjoyed it and it helped me get something going.

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Pathik — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:56:32 GMT

excellent article. I have added aspnet_compiler within msbuild but somehow its not working. How if you can give some hint on that too ??? It has some problem with webconfig saying "MachineToApplication" setting has problem, I searched for solution and it says if I have multiple web config, but my project has only 1 web config.

Please throw some light on that.

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Eric Swanson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:11:52 GMT

Awesome! I read your book when it released and loved it. Keep up the great work!

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Altug Sahin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:34:40 GMT

Hi Omar,

How do you configure and deploy for different builds such as "debug" and "release"?

Connection strings and different environment settings should be picked up in those builds so how would you achieve that?

Thanks

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Milan Lamichhane — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:16:02 GMT

Omar,

Nice post. But how about the database changes? I would also like to run database scripts on the server while deploying the application. Any idea?

Thanks in advance.

Milan

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

Noman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:59:28 GMT

This is great! I've seen a lot of examples using VSS but this is what I was looking for. I need to book mark this page. I will go forward with this and hope thtis helps me!

re: ASP.NET website Continuous Integration+Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy

GClover — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:33:23 GMT

Hi Omar.

Dropthings.com is a wonderful website, but I found a bug recently, not a serious one, but I think you might be interested.

Here is the bug:

When I add a new stuff in a tab, for example "How to the Day". Assume that I have two other widget in this tab already:BBC & CNN, with the order that CNN located under BBC, both in the same column. Now I drag the new widget "How to the Day " to the bottom of the column,(the same column with BBC & CNN) and we have the order: BBC, CNN and then How to the Day, the same order I was expected after I refreshed this page. After I made a refresh, however, the order comes out like: BBC, How to the Day and then CNN, which means the new widget I dragged moved upward after refreshment.

Hope you can check it out.

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Adam Zochowski — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:27:43 GMT

When you want to auto deploy, why not use web deployment project?

hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336619.aspx

secondly, you have not touched upon testing. I have toyed with automating FxCop

hxxp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429476(VS.80).aspx

ccnet.config changes:

<executable>c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft FxCop 1.36\fxcopcmd</executable>

<baseDirectory>c:\Projects\myProject\</baseDirectory>

<buildArgs> /file:application\bin\mydll.dll /o:ccnet-fxcop.xml</buildArgs>

</exec>

<merge>

<files>

<file>c:\Projects\myProject\ccnet-fxcop.xml</file>

</files>

</merge>

dashboard.config changes:

<xslFile>xsl\fxcop-summary.xsl</xslFile>

<xslFile>xsl\fxcop-summary2.xsl</xslFile>

...

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Have not time to do nUnit ( hxxp://www.nunit.org/ ) and or SandCastle ( hxxp://blogs.msdn.com/sandcastle/ ) integrations yet

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Pathik — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:20:57 GMT

This is really helpful article. I have heard that CIFactory is also doing great job in Continuous Integration. If you write something about that, it will also really help us.

thanks !!

Pathik

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Mitch — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:06:14 GMT

Hi Omar.

Just wanted to say thanks. I've been looking to do this for a while but have not done it due to the perceived learning curve. This article was a great way to get started for us.

Very nice of you to share your work with the community.

Cheers!